put (someone or something) under the microscope
put (someone or something) under the microscope
To begin closely inspecting someone or something; to hold someone or something up to intense scrutiny. After I got that official reprimand at work, it feels like my bosses are putting me under the microscope. The press has put the country's surveillance methods under the microscope since it emerged that it had been eavesdropping on its own citizen's communications.
See also: microscope, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- bird has flown, the
- beware of
- beware of (someone or something)
- be rough on (someone or something)